Re: Stable .3 releases

[Sebastien Bacher <seb128 ubuntu com>]

Le mercredi 24 janvier 2007 à 10:32 +0100, Vincent Untz a écrit :
> Hi all,
> 
> After some discussion on IRC about stable .3 releases, I'm wondering how
> useful those releases are. They're taking time to our maintainers and
> many already don't have enough time for what they'd love to do...
> 
> Are stable .3 releases packaged and uploaded in your OS?
> 
> I know they are for Debian, but one could argue that Debian stable is
> using a really old version anyway (it's 2.8.3 right now ;-)).

hi,

For Ubuntu we don't push new versions to -updates, we usually ship
with .1 and backport patches after that. We did upload the new GNOME
stable version for dapper-updates, new versions sometime bring new bugs
though and we prefer pick fixes to the stable package now. 


Cheers,

Sebastien Bacher